Chap. 995.—An ACT for the relief of Robert Penick, a Confederate soldier.

Approved March 7, 1900.

Whereas Robert Penick, of Appomattox county, who was a soldier in
the Confederate army, ‘frat as a member of the sixth Virginia
cavalry, and afterwards as a member of the fifty sixth Virgini: 1
infantry, sustained serious injury by a fall from a horse at Ashland,
Virginia, in September, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, while on duty
as a soldier, and sustained a further and serious injury near Farmville,
Virginia, by the explosion of a shell so near to his head as to cause a
violent concussion, from which he never recovered, and which superin-
duced frequent spells of vertigo, from which he now suffers; and

Whereas he is, by reason of said injuries, incapacitated for manual
labor and is an aged man—

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the
auditor of public accounts be, and is hereby, directed to list the said
Robert Penick upon the pension rolls for a pension of fifteen dollars,
when the facts as heretofore alleged shall be proven before the county
court of Appomattox and certified to the auditor of public accounts by
said court.

2. This act shall be in force from its passage.